Meteorite Landings

This comprehensive data set from The Meteoritical Society contains data on all of the known meteorite landings, consisting of 45,716 observations (obtained from NASA’s Data Portal). It may take some time for the complete map to load.

The diameter of each marker at a landing site is scaled to the mass of its corresponding meteorite. Zoom in to see finer detail of individual landing sites.

library(plotly, warn.conflicts=FALSE, quietly=TRUE)

mLnd <- read.csv("Meteorite_Landings.csv")

hover_text <- paste(mLnd$name,"<br>",
                    mLnd$fall, mLnd$year, "<br>",
                    "Mass:", mLnd$mass, "g"
                    )

plot_ly(data=mLnd, type="scattergeo",
        lon=mLnd$reclong, 
        lat=mLnd$reclat, 
        mode="markers",
        size=mLnd$mass,
        text=hover_text
        )